Results 40,601-40,620 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: As I told the Taoiseach yesterday, the House should have an opportunity to discuss that draft programme of budget details that was sent to the German Parliament. We should have been allowed the opportunity to ask questions on how it got to the German parliamentarians before it was debated properly in this House. The Minister should have explained it to the House and taken questions on that...
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing in the troika deal that states the Government has to give anything to anybody.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government Chief Whip should stop the jackboot stuff.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: German parliamentarians have had access to our budget details in advance of Members of Dáil Ãireann.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are now learning that Fine Gael and Labour parliamentarians are receiving detailed briefings on budget options in the health arena.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach allow the Minister for Health to make the presentation to the House today that he made to the Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary parties-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----regarding the choices in the health arena? Having to pay to get a medical card is no laughing matter, Deputy Durkan.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Closing 42 community nursing units is not a laughing matter.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is this aspect of the proposals on which I want to focus. We need honest debate in the House about the choices facing us. The worrying element of the proposals outlined to Deputies last night was that of the pending closure of community hospitals around the country. There are more than 100 such units and they give excellent care to the elderly. Such drastic action would seem impossible...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Many people are concerned. Society is facing demographic challenges. Thankfully, people are living longer today than they would have five or ten years ago. The programme for Government promised additional funding for older people and their care. There is a great deal of arrogance and contempt in-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----how the Government treats the Dáil. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the closure of community hospitals is planned and whether the House will debate this and other matters so that every Deputy might have access to the kind of presentations that were made to the Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary parties last night?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking for an opportunity for Members of the Dáil to participate proactively in these choices.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I received it this morning in the Library.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government supplied the material belatedly.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the Taoiseach still does not get it, where the documentation is concerned.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The issue is that the documentation in the German Parliament should come to the House before it goes anywhere else. That is the point.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should never again appear in the House and discuss Dáil reform, as he does not mean a word of what he says.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Contrary to what the Taoiseach has stated, the Government has not provided opportunities to Opposite Members to have any proactive engagement with budget details.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The capital programme was published outside of the House.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: As I am entitled to do under Standing Orders, I am asking a question on a matter raised.